Little Rock Heads to Nevada For Jackrabbit Invitational

2022 JACKRABBIT INVITATIONAL
Dates	Monday, Mar. 14 - Tuesday, Mar. 15
Format	36 holes Monday; 18 holes Tuesday
Times	10 a.m. CT shotgun start both days
Location	Boulder City, Nevada
Course	Boulder Creek Golf Club
Teams (10)	Little Rock, Bradley, Bucknell, Fairleigh Dickinson, Idaho State, La Salle, Middle Tennessee, Missouri State, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, Oklahoma City, Rutgers, South Dakota State (host), UNLV
Scoring	GolfStat.com

2021-22 Little Rock Women's Golf Statistics (PDF)

Opening Tee
Little Rock resumes its spring schedule with a trip to Nevada, competing in the Jackrabbit Invitational Monday and Tuesday in Boulder City.
 
Tournament Information
The 2022 Jackrabbit Invitational, hosted by South Dakota State, will be a 54-hole tournament played at Boulder Creek Golf Course, a par-72, 6,343-yard course. The tournament will be played over the course of two days, beginning with two rounds Monday with a 10 a.m. CT shotgun start, and the final round Tuesday with a 10 a.m. CT shotgun start. Live scoring will be available at GolfStat.com.
 
Tournament Field
Little Rock is one of 14 teams competing in Nevada this week and is the lone Sun Belt school among the field. The Trojans enter the event as the number five ranked team in the field, boasting a GolfStat ranking of 146, and trailing UNLV (No. 43), Middle Tennessee (No. 101), Rutgers (No. 122) and South Dakota State (No. 123).
 
Trojan Lineup
Head coach Jenna Wylie will have a slightly different lineup as Little Rock heads west, but the Trojans will be led by a familiar face in Katja Mueller, who will be in the number one position with a 73.47 average. Agatha Alesson and Malena Austerslaatt will return to the lineup after missing the spring opener in Louisiana with Anna Dawson and Sydney Scraba rounding out the Trojan scorecard.
 
Last Time Out
Katja Mueller tied for the individual title and Little Rock placed fourth at the spring-opening Tchefuncta Invitational February 21-22 in Covington, Louisiana. The Trojans posted a 51-over 903, including a 299 in round three, as Mueller registered a 3-over 216 to tie for the individual tournament title before finally succumbing on the sixth hole of a playoff. Anna Dawson also registered her first career top-20 finish, tying for 17th with a 16-over 229.
 
Heading West
This week's event outside of Las Vegas marks the first time the Trojans will play a tournament in the state of Nevada as Little Rock will make a rare trip out west. The tournament in Boulder City will be the second-furthest west the Trojans will have competed since playing in the Fresno State Classic in Fresno, California March 13-14, 2017. Little Rock played in Seattle earlier this season.
 
Katja in the Record Books
Katja Mueller put her name into the Little Rock record book at the Tchefuncta Invitational to start the spring season, the first Trojan to tie for an individual tournament title since Shania Berger did it twice during the spring portion of the 2016 season. Mueller became the 16th different golfer in program history to claim at least a share of an individual title, registering her second top-10 finish of her freshman campaign. She enters this week's event leading the team in scoring average at 73.47 with a pair of rounds of par-or-better.
 
Welcome Back
Little Rock will have two different faces in this week's event as senior Malena Austerslaatt and sophomore Agatha Alesson make their first appearances of the spring. Alesson finished the fall with a 75.50 scoring average and a pair of par-or-better rounds, while Austerslaatt is one of Little Rock's most experienced golfers, playing in a career 84 rounds with a 77.15 scoring average and nine career par-or-better rounds.
 
Experienced Scraba
Senior Sydney Scraba holds the distinction as the most experienced player on the Little Rock lineup, playing 90 rounds over 31 tournaments in her fourth season. Scraba has a career scoring average of 78.34 and has been the most productive as a senior, ranking third on the team with a 74.78 average and a top-10 finish, tying for eighth at the Little Rock Golf Classic in October.
 
Going Low
Little Rock continues to improve on the course under third year head coach Jenna Wylie, registering eight round under 300 thus far on the year as the Trojan's 299.07 team scoring average currently would rank first in program history, ahead of the 301.39 average from the 2014-15 team. Individually, Little Rock golfers have combined for 13 par-or-better rounds, led by four from Viktoria Krnacova and two each from Katja Mueller, Sydney Scraba, Agatha Alesson and Malena Austerslaatt.
 
Busy Stretch
This week's tournament in Nevada starts a busy stretch of the spring for Little Rock as the Trojans will play tournaments in three consecutive weeks, going from Nevada to Alabama to Georgia. Little Rock's six spring tournaments will be played in six different states, culminating with the 2022 Sun Belt Championship in Daytona Beach, Florida.
 
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